Join this conversation with USP faculty Dr Leung Wing Sze and two invited speakers – Mr Jevon Ng (a social worker with the Humanitarian Organisation for Migration Economics) and Mr Zakir Hossain Khokon (a construction supervisor and freelance journalist) – as they look at various issues of migrant labour in Singapore. Mr Zakir, also the winner of the 2014 and 2015 Migrant Worker Poetry Contest in Singapore, will read some of his poems during the session. Everyone in USP is invited.

Initiated and organised by USP students, the objective of "Makan with Professors" is to allow students to ‘chill’ with specially invited professors from various faculties and schools in NUS. Some of the professors who are invited include:

- Prof Audrey Yue (FASS, Communications and New Media)
- Prof Luke O'Sullivan (FASS, Political Science)
- Prof Nina Powell (FASS, Psychology)
- Prof Mabel Chou (Biz)
- Prof Alberto Corrias (Engineering)
as well as some USP profs, Prof Kang Hway Chuan, Prof Low Boon Chuan and Prof Loy Hui Chieh.

Organised by Love, USP, this event is a collaboration with SoSD, a non-profit organisation striving to change the plight of street dogs in Singapore. The volunteers from SoSD will bring along their canine pals and share about the roles we can play in changing perceptions about how homeless animals are regarded in Singapore.

Dinner Conversations with USP Profs:
[Organised by Cinnamon Conversation and initiated by students, this is a series of informal and relaxed conversations over dinner, between a prof/guest and 4 to 6 students on a topic that the prof/guest is interested in.]

“Really Connected by Being Connected to Social Media?” by A/P Joonmo Son
Prof Son, an associate professor from NUS Department of Sociology, is USP’s newest residential fellow. His research interests lie in Social Capital, Volunteering, Health, Economic Sociology and Stratification – learn more about him here.